Skillet Vegetables and Cheese Video

Cleaning the Kitchen: Susan shares an effortless way to remove baked-on gunk from skillets and pans

Hi. This is Susan Westmoreland in the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen. And tonight, we made a really delicious veggie stir fry that you then melt cheese over and serve with garlicky croutons. Now, I've got a pan here-- just to exaggerate the problem 'cause we're starting Cleaning Week in the Good Housekeeping Kitchens. So, I've got this nice melted on cheese. You can see I'm not faking it in this regular-- not a non-stick skillet, which you certainly could use. But when you wanna get really high heat, you don't wanna use non-stick because so it's not good for their surface or for you. So, we use-- we tend to use regular skillets for this kind of thing. I'm gonna turn on the heat to high on this, and pour in some water basically to the afflicted area, about halfway up. And then, a couple of drops of soap suds. And we're just gonna set that aside and let it come to the boil. And that really will help-- the detergent will help loosen things up a little bit. And we'll come back to it. And hopefully, just scoop it right down. I'm just gonna stir that soap around and try not to pick at it until it comes to the boil and sits for a few minutes. We're back at the stove with our little veggie stir fry with melted cheese, and we're almost to a boil here. I think we could safely say that I have not touched this since we last left the pan, but you can see that things are lifting in a huge cool rafts of stuff, which is kinda cool. I'm gonna turn it off so you can get to see a little bit more. And this is basically the whole-- let me just turn this a little bit-- the whole bottom of the pan, it seems. This is like fabulous. Ready? I'm gonna-- I'm gonna pour this off. You don't wanna really look this, but maybe just pour it off in here so you'll see just how easily this is really cleaned up. That's fantastic. So, this is great. And that took literally about 5 minutes. So, there you are. Nice, clean bottom of the pan. And if I get a sponge, I'll get out the rest of this. Very easy. Susan Westmoreland in the Good Housekeeping Kitchen, helping you take back dinnertime.

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